Democratic Party (United States)

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The Democratic Party is one of the two major United Statespolitical parties. The Party is currently (as of 2005) the minority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, as well as in governorships and state legislative seats, leading some within the party to label it an Opposition Party. [1] Of the two major U.S. parties, the Democratic Party is a liberal party to the left of the Republican Party, though its politics are not as consistently leftist as the traditional social democratic and labor parties in much of the rest of the world.

In contemporary times, its primary political ideologies are commitment to tempering capitalism with programs of social welfare. Some other issues have included support for civil rights in contrast to the Democrats' previous support of slavery and segregation, high taxation, strict gun control, a pro-abortion stance, secularism, a multilateral foreign policy except for the frequent unilateralism of President Clinton, governmental and private sector actions to create new jobs, environmentalism, public education, and the right of workers to organize in labor unions.